Posts Tagged Steve Schmidt

When we told [insert any politicized Christian] to SHUT UP — i.e. leave your religion out of politics — turns out they were getting good advice as well as well as living up to their responsibility as children of The Constitution.

Speaking publicly for one of the first times since the end of the presidential campaign, John McCain’s campaign manager Steve Schmidt painted a dire portrait of the state of the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP has largely been co-opted by its religious elements.

“If you put public policy issues to a religious test, you risk becoming a religious party,” Schmidt declared. “And in a free country, a political party cannot be viable in the long term if it is seen as a sectarian party.” Read the rest —>>>